Rautahat, November 8
Around 200 students in five grades of a school in Yamunamai Rural Municipality of Rautahat district have been forced to attend classes in the open for last one month after the newly elected leaders of the Rural Municipality occupied a building of their school to run office.
The leadership of Rural Municipality is currently using a two-storey building of local Janata Secondary School in Saruatha of Yamunamai that had housed classes for grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Consequently, the students of these grades are studying in the open.
There are more than 500 students at the school.
Teachers and guardians say they have been shocked from the leadership’s conduct as they had expressed commitment to promoting quality education before the polls.
The school principal Nabin Singh, however, says the school decided to provide the building for some days as the Chairman of Rural Municipality made a request. “But, the condition of agreement is that they will shift the office after some days once they will find a new building,” he maintains.
The Chairman, Shree Prakash Mukhiya, agrees with the principal and says the decision was made out of compulsion.
Meanwhile, District Education Officer Ram Binaya Singh says he has already directed the local body to shift the office at the earliest and help the school run its teaching-learning activities smoothly.
